Can't remember ever reading any RR Martin although the name is familiar. Still pretty miffed when they started grouping fantasy in with sci-fi. At least you can usually be sure which genre it is from the crappy cover art. For the longest time I haven't been able to read anything less than a trilogy. Five books is definitely my speed though, enjoy!:-)

He's been the toast of the town since HBO announced they'd do a mini-series based on Game of Thrones. Which I guess did well, because the media is still gushing about him... He's supposed to write nice dense, multi-line stories that take a long time to resolve, which I'm all for provided it doesn't feel like it's being stretched out to generate one more $9 paperback. (No indication he does, but I can think of a few...)

VenomousPinecone wrote:Dorf sex.{ ... }Hell, then you got awesome dudes like: the Dornish Viper, the Hound, the Mountain that Rides, etc. Good times.

I didn't understand most of that. Is this where your neko handle came from, by any chance?

READ them books, and you WILL understand what VP meant. Actually, he forgot to mention The Imp - one of my favorite characters in there...Anyhow, if you are in need of a satisfying page-turner for tonight, get yourself "A game of thrones" [Volume 1 of the saga]. It will keep you up until tomorrow morning...pleasant dreams afterwards

If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?

I'm not knocking George, and from everything I've heard I'm sure I'll enjoy his books when I do finally pick them up. But in the meantime, I understand there are new releases from Alaistair Reynolds and Neal Stephenson out there somewhere...

that came out so blissfully glib, it sounds like an old Austrian saying.

BTW while "you'd" is a contraction of "you would", not "you did", using both meanings in the same sentence without context confuses the distinction which one was intended. if it was just a typo just ignore that helpful hint.

that came out so blissfully glib, it sounds like an old Austrian saying.

BTW while "you'd" is a contraction of "you would", not "you did", using both meanings in the same sentence without context confuses the distinction which one was intended. if it was just a typo just ignore that helpful hint.

But, I'm sorry. What I'd intended to say is, "if you would [shit gold], [then] you would be an ass". As a non-native English-speaker I am of course not aware of the fact that my original construction is confusing in proper English. Thanks for your correction. My bad

If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?

Oskar wrote:But, I'm sorry. What I'd intended to say is, "if you would [shit gold], [then] you would be an ass". As a non-native English-speaker I am of course not aware of the fact that my original construction is confusing in proper English. Thanks for your correction. My bad :-(

Not a correction, merely a shared clarification. I figured that was what you meant, when I looked up the scope of the contraction. While you're technically correct with the dual meaning of the contraction, without the context for "you'd" to discriminate between "you did" and "you could" the reader is left confused with your usage. I would avoid using both meanings without an explicate context for each, or at least one.